Alternatives to Khan Academy
A free nonprofit learning platform with interactive lessons, videos and practice exercises across many subjects. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Khan Academy
A free nonprofit learning platform with interactive lessons, videos and practice exercises across many subjects.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Khan Academy.
Brilliant
Interactive, visual lessons and an AI tutor for learning math and coding, on the web and mobile.
Brilliant offers interactive visual lessons and an AI tutor on web, Android and iOS, but covers only math and coding and needs a paid plan for full access.
Kolibri
An offline-first learning platform that serves a library of educational content from a local machine, with no internet needed to use it.
Kolibri is open source under MIT and serves Khan Academy and other open content offline from a local server, but someone must set up and curate it.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Khanmigo
An AI tutor and teaching assistant from Khan Academy for learners, parents and teachers.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free interactive physics, chemistry and math simulations usable directly in the browser.
GeoGebra
Free interactive math tools for graphing, geometry, 3D, algebra and calculus, used in browsers and apps.
Desmos
Free online graphing, scientific, geometry and 3D calculators, plus a math notebook.
Mathway
A math problem solver that shows step-by-step solutions for typed or photographed problems.
Exercism
A free online platform for practising programming through exercises in dozens of languages, with optional mentoring.
